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ieggee.—The Emperor and Empress have returned from Chalons to St. Cloud chi Rheims. The Empress arrived in the camp at Chalons on Saturday afternoon, ails was received in great state. She was met by the Emperor on horse- back, and passed to the imperial head-quarters through a double line of troops. She also drove over the camp. But her stay was short. On Monday, the Emperor and Empress made a progress to Rheims. The ifoniteur has described the pageants of the ceremonial a in Barrare. Triumphal arches outside, the corporation in waiting with the keys on a dish of gold, all the houses hung with costly woollens, the produce of Ike looms of the country, snore triumphal arches in the streets, win. dews, and housetops crowded with people. As usual, their Majesties proceeded to the cathedral. Cardinal Gousset, once a shepherd's boy, received the Emperor at the portal.

"Having addressed to the illustrious guests whom he was receiving a fer- vid allocution, in harmony with the solemnity celebrated by an entire populatione the cardinal Introduced the Emperor and Empress into his church. Their Majesties first stopped under a canopy, where they received the honours due to their supreme rank ; then they went in procession to take their places on a prie-Dieu in the middle of the choir. The organ played, and in the midst of an attentive public, of a praying clergy, the ;wilted roofs of the church resounded with the chant that invokes the bless- ings of God upon the Sovereign of France. After this religious ceremony, which will ho one more tradition added to those from which Rheims derives its authority and lustre, their Majesties repaired to the Archbishop's palace, which they had chosen for their residence. In the vast halls of this palace, replete with the noblest, purest, and most patriotic historical recollections of the monarchy, the Emperor received the constituted civic and depart- mental bodies. The working guilds were equally admitted to present their homage to the Monarch. The market-women presented to their Majesties a rich present, intended for the Imperial Prince. The Empress, with an emotion of pleasure and a feeling of kindness that threw a fresh charm over her features, addressed a few benevolent words to these women enthralled by her grace. These receptions were finished by an appearance of their Majesties upon the flight of steps before the Archbishop's palace. The re- presentatives of all the communes, having their mayors at their head, and distinguished by banners of different colours, and the medallists of St. He- lena, filed off before the Emperor, uttering acclamations as they passed, that showed more and yet more profoundly than ever the source from which the protective dynasty of the interests of all derives its greatness and its strength."

In the evening, the town was illuminated, and the Emperor and Empress attended a ball, when the Emperor danced with the daughter of M. World the Mayor.

The Duke of Malakoff was married on Thursday to Mademoiselle de Painega. The Empress contributed the bride's trousseau ; the Emperor her dot—a million of francs. The marriage was performed at St. Cloud in the presence of the Emperor and Empress, Madame hiontijo, and a host of court favourites. The Honiteur records the proceedings with that solemnly enthusiastic air it has adopted on similar occasions. The Duke is sixty-seven, the Duchess thirty-three years of age.

The canal interest in France annually utters its complaints, and pe- titions the Emperor. This year the disease has assumed the form of an attack upon the railways. Railways abuse the advantages accorded to them by the state ; their true competitors will be found in the canals ! Railways pay nothing to the state, the canals are burdened with dues.

"The great cause of the ruin of internal navigation lies in the base abuse which the railway companies make of what they term differential tariffs. The manner in which they tamper with these tariffs is contrary to the spirit of their statutes, contrary to the clearly expressed intentions of the Legis- lative Chamber, contrary to the resolutions enunciated on all occasions by Councils-General, Chambers of Commerce, and other bodies to which we are accustomed to look for the expression of public opinion. The com- panies charge very low rates on all their lines which are parallel to water- ways, rivers, and canals, and raise their ',rates very considerably in those localities where they find no competition. Their system of tariffs relative to total distances not entirely followed by navigable ways are based on curious inequalities, which completely exclude for greater distances all com- petition."

The remedy ? Abolition of dues ; abolition of differential rates, or at least a measure subjecting goods carried partly by rail and partly by canal to the same rates of charge as if they were carried solely by rail. The railway people have offended the protectionists by buying English rails, and they are vehemently suspected of free-trade leanings.

The Prefect of the Basses Pyrenees has made a report to the Minister of the Interior on the emigration from the department in 1857, so inju- rious to agriculture and the army.

"1st Question.—Am I to conclude that the population, in consequence of a better harvest, were able more readily to collect the means of emigrating, and that the remittances forwarded by the Basques already established at Le Plata have been more considerable ?—The emigration preceded the maize crop, the principal produce of the Basque country, and, had the harvest taken place sooner, the produce would have been almost completely ab- sorbed in liquidating debts which the scarcity of corn compelled the farmers to contract of late years. In the arrondissement of Mauleon and Bayonne emigration is solely excited by the incessant appeals which the Basques in- stalled in the Argentine provinces address to their countrymen of every age and sex, and by the transmission of money, which the first emigrants send to their families when they do not themselves return with fortunes more or

i less considerable acquired n those distant countries. The same causes are beginning to produce the same effects in the arrondissement of Oleron and Orthez, where emigeation has remarkably increased.

" 2d Question.—Must I believe that the agricultural labourers do not re- ceive sufficiently high wages, and that the want of encouragement drives them to expatriate themselves ?—On the one hand, the moderate salary paid to daily labourers, particularly during late years, on the other hand, the in- sufficiency of the produce of patrimonial portions of land for the small cul- tivator, which is subdivided at every inheritance, constitute the principal cause of the Basque emigration. The second cause arises from the facility granted to emigrants to enable them to make their passage. Formerly the s7stals of ships required the payment of the passage either in cash or by a 8."'ut security. At present, if an emigrant has a trade, even that of a iniple labourer, they are satisfied with his engagement to pay them the

Mace of the Passage, (which in this ease is rather higher,) within six months ,w nis arrival, and that out of his wages or his half-year's salary. It often nlipeus, likewise, that the price of the passage is paid in advance by the 'cistiells already settled in America. Thus, all possible advantages being

offered to a population already so well disposed to embark, the movement of emigration appears to me destined to assume greater proportions. Neese- theless, it might perhaps be diminished if the Government would rentals a passport to every individual who had not attained his majority."

The Prefect enlarges on the successes of the recruiting agents, and et- plains that they carry away women and girls for the basest purposes.

"In a word, the msufficiency of means to live on their native soil, in consequence of the minute subdivision of landed property, and the active persuasion carried on by emigration agents, are the two principal causes of emigration from the department of the Basses Pyrenees."

The Brussels Ituldpendance of yesterday evening states, that the French Government has addressed a note to the Holy see, couched in very moderate and cautious terms, in which it calls upon that power to con- sider the moral consequences it entails upon itself by approving of the violent outrage committed by the familiars of the Holy 011ffice in carry lug off the Jewish child at Bologna. The Inddpendance adds : " The Cabinet of the Tuileries could not do less, but we much fear that if it remains alone in its proceedings, that the only result will be to relieve France of the responsibility without restoring the young Mortara to his parents."

f. TI tI111.—The French Government has received an account of the festivities at St. Helena on the 15th August, Napoleon's fete day. One of the ceremonies was a dinner given by M. Gauthier de Rour- mont, guardian and conservator of the dwelling house and tomb of IN as poleon.

A white marble bust of Queen Victoria and another of the Emperor of the French were placed opposite to each other in the banquet-hall. Portraits of various members of the Imperial family of France and paint- ings representing the principal incidents in the life of Napoleon I. were hung on the walls. During the dinner M. Gauthier de Rougement, who wore the medal of St. Helena and the cross of the Legion of Honour, spoke as follows :—

"Gentlemen—Permit me, on the fete of St. Napoleon, to propose a toast to the health of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and to his august ally her Majesty Queen Victoria. 'May the union of France and England, which rests on reciprocal friendship and esteem, secure the peace of the world henceforth and for ever.'"

After this speech, which was hailed with loud acclamations, the Go- vernor said :— " It is with the utmost pleasure, my dear Commandant, that we all re- ceive the expression of your good wishes, and the toast to our august sove- reigns, his Majesty Napoleon III. and Queen Victoria." This reply was followed by fresh cheers. M. Gauthier de Rougemont next proposed the health of his Excellency Drummond Hay, Governor of the colony of St Helena ; and these gentlemen reciprocated compli- ments. M. Do Rougemont having proposed the health of the Chief Justice, as the second authority in the island, Sir H. Wilde rose, and, with his eyes fixed on the portrait of the Empress of the French, said-

" Gentlemen—I propose the health of the most virtuous, the most beautiful, the most amiable, the most religious, and the most charming lady who exists on the earth, her Majesty the Empress of the French."

The ceremonies closed with a ball and supper, and nine times nine for Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the Emperor and the Empress of the French. Dancing was kept up till daylight.

int es al.—A good deal of fragmentary information has dropped in all the week respecting the difference between France and Portugal. It seems that Portugal had given France general permission to collect black emigrants in the Mozambique, but required that each ship should have a special permission from the authorities on the spot. It is contended on one side that there was no such authority on board the Charles and Georges, and on the other that the authority was contained in a paper from a Sheik, a purveyor of blacks. The ship was found in prohibited waters ; she had on board a number of negroes, and an abundance of irons. The negroes, it is said, were not willing but very unwilling emigrants. The French allege that the ship had put into the port under stress of weather, and not to obtain emigrants. In the meantime the Portuguese Minister in Paris has been in close conference with Count Walewski, and the two ships of war in the Tagus have intimated their presence and mission to M. de Lisle. It seems that Portugal has offered to submit the affair to arbitration, and has promised if that offer be ac- cepted to surrender the ship at once. The latest report is, that the offer has been" conditionally" accepted.

r US5 i ff.—The Prussian Honiteur has published the official docu- ments relating to the regency. One decree is as follows- "1.—To His Royal Highness the Prince of prussia. "In replacing me in the direction of the affairs of the Government during the year which has elapsed since the commencement of my illness, your Royal Highness has given me a great consolation, for which I return you my heartfelt thanks. Now that I am, by God's will, still prevented by the state of my health from devoting myself to the cares of government, and as the physicians have advised me to make a journey during the winter in a southern climate, I invite you, in consideration of the continued hindrance of governing, myself, to exercise the Royal power in my name as Regent, according to the inspirations of your conscience, and being. responsible only. to God, until the moment I shall be again able myself to fulfil the duties of my Royal functions, and beg of you to take the necessary measures to that effect. I reserve to myself to make ulterior arrangements respecting those affairs of my Royal house which concern my person.

" Sans-Souci, 7th October, 1858. (Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIAM.

(Countersigned) "Vox ILANTEEFFEL, VON DER HEYDT, VON BODELSCIEWINGH, VON FLOTTWELL, VON MANTEUFFEL

A second consists of the formal acceptance of the office on the part of the Prince, "on his Majesty's invitation and in virtue of the 56th article of the constitution." He therefore convokes the Chambers for the 20th October.

The name of Flottwell among the Ministers counter-signing the decree will be remarked. This elderly gentleman had taken the place of M. de Westphalen, Minister of the Interior, whose management of the police has given such dissatisfaction. The dismissal of Westphalen may be regarded as the first act of the Prince-Regent, and is held to be significant. Indeed "it is generally supposed that there will be a com- plete change in the Cabinet. MM. Auersward, Count Schwerin, ?Ulf. Bonin, Patow, de Bethmann, and other leaders of the Constitutional party, are spoken of as likely to be the new lifinisters." But this is premature. The Preussuche Correspondenz has the following article— "At the expiration of the time of the full powers intrusted to the Prince of Prussia for the management of the Government, the country anxiously

awaited the solution of the question whether his Majesty, having kept him- self away from the affairs of State during a whole year, would feel himself sufficiently restablished to resume again the reins of government. Unhap- pily, the result of the treatment hitherto followed and the summer sojourn at Tegernsee, while acting favourably on the state of his Majesty generally, were not sufficiently complete. The King's physicians expressed the opin- ion that the Monarch, not to compromise the progress of his convalescence,

ought still to avoid the fatigues of his high mission. His Majesty, there- fore, came to the conviction that it was necessary to devote a longer time to

the care of his health ; and in his paternal solicitude for the welfare of the country recognized that the State ought not to remain longer deprived of a direction invested with the supreme authority and Royal initiative ; conse-

quently the King has deemed it advisable, until his entire restoration to health, to ask the Prince of Prussia to take, from the present moment, the government of the country in full independence, and to direct the affairs ac- cording to his own personal views as Regent." A correspondent of the Daily .Yves at Berlin sends some useful state- ments.

"There is in Prussia no regular civil list voted every year, as in other countries, but that the dotations of the crown and appanages of the Royal Family are supplied from the revenues derived from the crown entailed estates.' These crown domains are more than sufficient to defray the ex- penses of the Royal Family, and keep up the dignity of the Prussian court ; and as the value of these estates has greatly increased during the last ten or fifteen years, owing to the introduction of an improved system of agriculture and drainage, there has been lately a considerable surplus, which the King relinquished, and which were applied to the general purposes of the state. In consideration of this circumstance, as the Queen is still strongly opposed to any abandonment of the King's rights to the revenues of the crown do- mains which he has always enjoyed (and on which a good many charities and pensions are charged), it is now resolved to apply to the Chambers for a suitable dotation of the Prince Regent, and a bill is being prepared for that purpose. With regard to the amount to be demanded, I have reason to be- lieve it will be fixed at half a million of dollars, or about 70,000/. per annum. Besides this, it is settled that the King shall retain for his life the royal palaces and chateaux at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, Sans-Souci at Potsdam, Erdmannsdorf in Silesia, and one or two others less generally !mown in England."

A letter from Berlin states that the Prince of Prussia has received by telegraph the congratulations of the four great Powers on his accession to the Regency. The first that arrived was from the Emperor Alexander, which was sent off "with remarkable promptitude."

The Oesterreichisehe Zeitung thus comments on the change in Prussia. "The change which is now about to take place in Prussia, will make itself felt throughout Germaey. In all probability a cry will be raised that the increased power of the Diet and of the press will be detrimental to the Conservative principle, but the fact is that no set of men can possibly do as much harm to it as the Prussian Conservatives have done. The super- ciliousness and pride of the privileged classes, their misuse of religion and of the Word of God for the furtherance of party purposes' their selfishness, and their utter disregard for justice and equity, have so disgusted the na- tion, that the ultra-Conservadve party in Prussia is as isolated as was the Faubourg St. Germain, at the time of the Restoration. The Ministers also, who have done all in their power to diminish the importance of the repre- sentation of the people, are exceedingly unpopular with the nation at large. When right and real might are on the one side, and ephemeral pewer on the other, serious injury is done to the Conservative principle whenever that power is abused. e are far from grudging Prussia the increase of moral influence which the approaching change must necessarily give her in Ger- many. The strict observance of the law of the land (which ought to be safe from attacks from above as well as from below) is the best security for all Governments, and the faithful and exact fulfilment of the promise that the representatives of the people shall have a share in the legislation is ne- cessary- to the maintenance of peace and tranquillity in the German States. As to the freedom of the press, it can never do as much harm to the Conser- vative cause as Ilinkeldf s arbitrary (police) system has done."

Herr von Flottwell, acting Minister of the Interior, was formerly at the head of the famous government commercial establishment known as the " Seehandlung," afterwards Minister of Finances, and subsequently till now civil governor of the province of Mark-Brandenburg. Two gentlemen who have been sent for and have had conference with the Regent are spoken of for the permanent appointment. The first is Herr von Witzleben who was for some time Minister for Foreign Affairs pre- vious to the events of 1848, and the other is Herr Kuhlwetter, formerly Minister of the Home Department, and now Civil Governor of the Rhenish Provinces, residing at Aix-la-Chapelle.

a Sir i a.—The Austrian Government has recently been lectured by one of the St. Petersburgh newspapers on its slowness in advancing re- forms! Thus—

"It was hoped that certain measures which are universally allowed to be requisite and necessary to the well-being of the Austrian empire, would be taken on the birth of a heir to the Throne, but the expectations of the people were not fulfilled. For many years Austria has longed for the pub- lication of definitive municipal and communal laws, and for many years public opinion has loudly condemned the anticipated and absurd laws or regulations of the guilds and corporations. A part of the nation (the He- brews) is left in uncertainty whether it has or has not a right to acquire real property ; the promise to regulate the affairs of the Protestant Church, which has repeatedly been given, has not yet been kept, and the statutes relative to the representation of the different Crown lands are still wanting. The nation could not expect that all these important matters would be dis- posed of at one and the same time, but it certainly did hope that the one or the other of them would be definitively settled." What next ? and next ?

/NUL—Telegraphic despatches from Allahabad and Bombay arrived in London on Thursday night. The latest dates are September 24th. They relate a series of isolated conflicts, and carry on the war in Rajpoo- tana another stage.

(Jude.—" The Cantonment of Sultanpore was occupied by our forces with- out opposition on the 29th of August, the rebels having retired, some in the direction of Amecee (r), and others towards the Gogra. Madho Singh is at his fort of Ametree, and is reported to have with him 1000 men and 22 guns. Some of the rebel troops from Bondee (?), on the north of the Gogra, had crossed the Gogra at Bairam Ghaut, and there were rumours of an intended attack on Nawabgunge, on the Fyzabad road, which had consequently been strengthened from Lucknow. The Nana, Bala, Rao, and the Begum are still on the north of the Gogra. The Fyzabad district reported to be undis- turbed. Rajah Mann Singh has promised to go himself with 1600 men and three guns to intercept the rebels from Sultanpore, who are making towards Tantia. '

The North West.—" The districts of Benares and Mirzapore continue tranquil. Jaunpore and Alighur are generally quiet. The rebels who bid besieged Russareh, in the Ghazepore district, were overtaken by a body Sikhs under Captsun Nedham, and defeated with a lees of twenty killed Ina fifty-nine wounded. The Zaminea pergunnah is much disturbed. " A body of rebel!, chiefly from Rewah, under Punjah Singh sad D" Singh, entered the Bares pergunnah of the Allahabad district, and co menced plundering. A. police force, under Captain Dennehy, went oni; against them, and, coming on them, by surprise, completely routed thuxu u

killing their leader, Punjah Singh, and some 200 of his followers. There: main i der of the Allahabab division s undisturbed.

" A strong body of rebels was attacked at Sinpoorah, in the Faunt pergunnah of the Bareilly district, by a force consisting of 600 men of fl arms, and was defeated with the loss of three guns, ammunition, cam ' equipaee, &c. Major H. Browne, 2d Punjaub Cavalry, lost his arra kr this affair. The rest of the division, except where the Shahjehanpore trict borders on the Goomtee, is quiet.

" The Etawah rebels have been driven out of the fort of Burreh, their head-quarters, with considerable loss. The remainder of the division is tranquil."

Central India.—" Brigadier M 'Duff has defeated and dispersed the rebels in the Jaloun district, on the bank of the Jumna. There is nothing of fin. portance to communicate from the rest of the division, the continuance if heavy rain having impeded all military operations. Tangah and Dunmow with a large body of rebels, occupied the fort of Burrakota and plundered the town, when they were suddenly surprised by a small detachment from Shahjur, under Captain Finch, and totally defeated. They left 150 dead bodies on the field. Other districts in the division are generally ewer. on the 5th of September Colonel Roberts, with 200 cavalry and efie brientry totally defeated the Paoree rebels between Gwalior andGojerah ; 450 deaa bodies were left on the field. Our loss consisted of one officer, Lieutenant Cancet (?), Her Majesty's 9th Regiment, killed ; four officers wounded ; four rank and file killed and ten wounded."

Rajpootana.—" The rebels under Tantia .Topee and the Banda Nawab surrounded Julra Patun on the 26th of August, and took it after a feeble resistance, many of the troops of the chief joining them. They levied heavy contributions on the town and took possession of all the treasure, guns, and munitions of war belonging to the chief of that state. By last accounts the rebels had marched from Julm Putun, with twenty-four guns, in the direction of Rampore. The Mhow field force,. under the command of Major-General Mitchell, attacked and defeated Tanta Tepee on the 15th of September near Heore, capturing twenty-five guns. The loss on the side of the British is but trifling. On the 19th, General Mitchell reached Nur- singhur in pursuit of the enemy, who had turned towards Seronj after his defeat on the 15th. Brigadier Parke, with the Neemuch column, was at Surrimpore on the 19th of September, awaiting instructions from General Mitchell, under whose orders he had been placed.

"It appears from the latest intelligence that Major-General Mitchell crossed the Parbutty river on the 20th of September, and marched towards Bursiah in order to cover Bhopal from the rebel force collected at Seronj. Brigadier Parke's column has been halted at Angher. Reinforcements in Cavalry, Horse Artillery, and Infantry are on their march to Mhow from the Bombay- Presidency; the cavalry alone number about 1200 sabres. A regiment of Beatson's Horse from Jaulnah is also on its way to the same quarter."

The telegmphieh despatches confirm the preceding accounts of the affair at Mooltan.

"The Sepoys of the Sixty-second and Sixty-ninth Native Infantry and the Native Artillerymen at Mooltan, have broken out. They attempted to seize the guns, but were driven back. The Adjutant of the Bombay Fusileers, and four Artillerymen, have been killed. Of the mutineers, about 400 have been killed, and the Police, Sowers, &c., are in active pursuit of the remainder."

&On it .—Advices from Hongkong to the 24th August have been received by the Australian mail. Admiral Seymour had returned thither from the Peiho, but Lord Elgin had gone on to Japan. The only mili- tary incident reported is the chastisement of Nantow for firing on a flag of truce. This was not effected without opposition. General Strau- benzee confined his operations to the capture of the fort by storm. He spared the town at the earnest prayer of its inhahitants. Our loss was three men killed and twelve wounded. Commander Madden of the Sanspareil was dangerously hit, and Captain Lambert of the Royal En- gineers mortally wounded by the accidental discharge of the musket of one of the men crowding up behind him to the assault.

Ian et At it0.—The Persia arrived at Liverpool on Sunday, with advices from New York to the 29th September. The details of the burning of the ship Austria have arrived from Ame- rica. The Austria left Hamburg on the 4th September, with a human freight of 425 persons, and a crew of 103 officers and men. On the 13th September she was suddenly set on fire by the carelessness of her crew. The steerage was ordered to be fumigated with burning tar. In effecting this operation the boatswain heated a chain, intending to dip it into the tar, but he made it to hot to hold, and dropping it on the deck fired the planks. In the confusion the tar was overset, and all was flame in an instant. Mr. Brews, a British civil servant, en route for British Columbia, and one of the saved, has supplied an intelligent nar- rative. He saw smoke burst from the after entrance of the steerage.

Some women ran aft, exclaiming "the ship is on fire ! what will be- come of us ? " The Captain bareheaded, rushed on deck, crying "We are all lost !" and he shortly after fell overboard in a frantic effort to lower a boat. The ship was a steamer, and going head to wind, the flames

spread with great rapidity. Mr. Brews ordered the helmsman to tum her side to the wind, and got it done after some difficulty, but the helms- man left the wheel, and the ship turned head to wind of her own ac- cord. An attempt was made to lower a boat ; it swamped. A second attempt upon another boat was made, but the people crowded her in SUC12 numbers that the attempt was for a moment abandoned. Renewed, a similar scene followed. The boat was swamped. Only three of her load held on. One was saved, and one strangled by a rope. Some gentle- men were suffocated in the smoking room ; the engineers met a fire; fate. The second-cabin passengers were shut in their cabin by the flyer some were drawn :lip through the ventilator, but the greater number perished by suffocation. Mr. Brew says— At this time the scene on the quarter-deck was indescribable and troll heartrending. Passengers were rushing frantically to and fro—hus.bande seekr _- ing their wives, wives in search of their husbands relatives looking 09 re- latives, mothers lamenting the loss of their children, some wholly parer_rea. by fear, others madly crying to be saved ; but a few perfectly calm and collect et, The games presaed so closely upon them that many jumped into the sea ; relatives, clasped in each other's arms, leaped over and met a watery grave; two girls, supposed to be sisters, jumped over and sank kissing each other. A missionary and wife leaped into the sea together, and the stewardess and mcsistant steward, arm in arm, followed. One Hungarian gentleman, with Seven fine children, four of them girls, made his wife jump in, then blessed his six eldest children, made them jump in one after the other, and follow- ed them with an infant in his own arms.

"I about this time, was standing outside the bulwarks, holding on by the (foils, leaning out to avoid the flames, which were leaping towards me.

I saw a swamped boat under me, spinning by a rope still attached to the skip; as the oars were tied in her, I thought that if I could get to her I would be enabled to save myself and others. I let myself down by a rope, passing over a man who was clinging to it, but who refused to come with me I took out a penknife to cut the tackle; the large blade broke, and I then severed it with the small blade. The ship passed ahead. As the screw approached I found the boat drawn towards it,. I tried to keep the boat ofl; but the screw caught and capsized her over me. I dived away from the ship and came to the surface near a boat which was keel upwards; I got on her, and by pressing on one side, with the assistance of a wave she righted, but was still swamped. The oars had been knocked out by the screw ; the only thing I could find in her to paddle with was some laths nailed together as a sheathing for the sides. "When I looked around, the ship was a quarter of a mile away from me. I could see the ladies and gentlemen jumping off the poop into the water in twos and threes, some of the ladies in flames. Several hesitated to leap from the burning ship until the last moment, as the height was 22 feet, and were only at length compelled to throw themselves off to avoid a more painful death. In half-an-hour not a soul was to be seen on the poop. I pulled after the ship and picked up a German who was swimming strong- ly ; I got him beside me on the boat, and we paddled after the ship with the laths. I now saw a vessel under sail approaching ; she reached the steamer about 5 p. in.; we continued pulling towards them, and about half- past seven o'clock, after being five hours in the water, got within hail of the sailing vessel, which put off a boat and took us on board. She proved to be the French barquo Maurice, Captain Ernest Renaud, of Nantes, bound from Newfoundland for Isle of Bourbon, with fish. She had, up to that time, rescued forty passengers of the burning steamer, chiefly taken off the bow- sprit, though a few were picked up floating around, At about eight o'clock one of the metallic boats came up, with about twenty-three persons, in- cluding the first and third officers, afterwards three or four men were picked up, floating on a piece of the broken boat. The second officer was taken up, having been swimming, with nothing to float him, for six hours. The se- cond and third officers were severely burned; one male passenger was burned frightfully, and some other male passengers slightly. There were but six women saved, three of whom were burned in a shocking manner." All who were rescued were picked up by the Maurice and a Nor- wegian bark. Some escaped in part of the fractured boats ; one or two swam about for six hours ; a few got off in a lifeboat. In all, of the total of 538 persons on board, only 67 were saved. Captain Renaud, of the Maurice behaved with the greatest kindness, especially in caring for the comforts of the few women rescued, and dressing the wounds.